First of all, perhaps nobody who reviewed this movie has seen movies upon which it was based. No. Not Star Wars. It was based on very gritty art films from the 70s that dealt with war, the Vietnam war specifically. So you have to approach it with that mindset.
So you're going to get confusing camera work, long, long takes, slow pacing, and VERY simple plot.
There's a gentleman on here who was in the Air Force, and said that the director was totally wrong about how those fighter pilots would REALLY act in a combat situation. Again, this is not a documentary, first off, and secondly, it's made painfully obvious that the troops were raw and poorly trained, the defense mounted by the humans was poorly organized, and that the humans were seriously outgunned and outclassed by the aliens.
Of course, this ain't Godard. So no, there's not much there there. But what there is of the film is interesting and quite well done, actually.
Doing non Hollywood sci-fi is a thankless t, because nearly everyone wants "slick". They want the extremely high budget, very predictable, standard scripts replete with all the standard tropes. A movie that doesn't offer that is automatically and unequivocally branded as "bad". That's simply unfair.
So you're going to get confusing camera work, long, long takes, slow pacing, and VERY simple plot.
There's a gentleman on here who was in the Air Force, and said that the director was totally wrong about how those fighter pilots would REALLY act in a combat situation. Again, this is not a documentary, first off, and secondly, it's made painfully obvious that the troops were raw and poorly trained, the defense mounted by the humans was poorly organized, and that the humans were seriously outgunned and outclassed by the aliens.
Of course, this ain't Godard. So no, there's not much there there. But what there is of the film is interesting and quite well done, actually.
Doing non Hollywood sci-fi is a thankless t, because nearly everyone wants "slick". They want the extremely high budget, very predictable, standard scripts replete with all the standard tropes. A movie that doesn't offer that is automatically and unequivocally branded as "bad". That's simply unfair.